Originally Posted by Bad Karma

One really would just need to look at how well Iraq did in the Gulf and present war, armed with Soviet weaponry. The conventional war lasted mere days, and the Iraqi Army and Air Force were in shambles. There were very casualties sustained by the US during the conventional war.

However a lot of this was due to very clever diversions and stopping 200 Russian Kornet anti-tank weapons from entering the country. One could only speculate if the Soviets would fall for any of these ruses, and certainly they would have their anti-tank busters on hand. (A Kornet is the only weapon that can take out an Abrams.)